Links to Other Websites
for Inventors
(Please note that these links are provided for your convenience. The author of
this page makes no representation as to the accuracy of whatever information
you receive from any site.)

The European Patent Office has a site at http://worldwide.espacenet.com/ with
search capabilities in English, French and German. Click the link to “Quick
Search” to get keywordaccess to 30
million patent documents, or click on the “Advanced Search” option for
structured searches.

Various government agencies set aside some of their R&D funding through
Small Business Independent Research (SBIR) programs. These programs are set up
to solve real problems identified by the sponsoring agency. They are not set up
to fund programs suggested by inventors. Much of the SBIR funding comes from
the Department of Defense

Licensing and start-up help

The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
provides start-up counseling

Inventor’s groups can be very helpful in finding resources, scoping out a
marketing approach, and helping you get a ‘School of Hard Knocks’ education
without having to suffer the ‘knocks’. Most of this is readily available on the
internet. For example:

InventorEd.org is a site where you can sign up for several of
the most active and fruitful of invention-related discussion groups